Top 5 Albums Of All Time

[TheInfamousBiGD]

I need new music to listen to. In your opinion what are the top 5 albums off all time, please specify album, artist and gender.

[hayroob]

There are only two bands I can unconditionally recommend every album:
Faith No More and The Talking Heads.

Ironically I hate almost everything that Mike Patton and David Byrne have done since these bands.

Now here's a buttload of albums I'll run down from skimming through my iTunes for stuff I can recommend without much need for explanation:
(in alphabetical order, * for personal favorites)
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
*Bela Fleck - Little Worlds
*Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks
Bjork - Medulla
*BEP - Behind The Front
*Dalek - From Filthy Tongues of Gods and Griots
Gnarles Barkley - St Elsewhere
*Gorillaz - Demon Days
Grand Buffet - Five Years of Fireworks
Incubus - Morning View
*Jaco Pastorius - Punk Jazz
Janelle Monae - Metropolis
*Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions
The Kooks - Konk
*Mr Bungle - California
My Morning Jacket - Z
*Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation ...
Rammstein - *Rosenrot, Sehnschut and Reise Reise
Thievery Corporation - Cosmic Game
Tool - Aenima and *10,000 Days
*Ugly Duckling - Taste The Secret
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
William Shatner - Has Been (this is not a joke, this album is actually good, and it's got a weird track about watching his wife die)

[TheInfamousBiGD]

Originally Posted by hayroob

William Shatner - Has Been (this is not a joke, this album is actually good, and it's got a weird track about watching his wife die)

Sold me there! Thanks for the list I see a few on there whom I've heard of before but never listened to.

[hayroob]

Originally Posted by TheInfamousBiGD

Sold me there! Thanks for the list I see a few on there whom I've heard of before but never listened to.

It's basically a Ben folds album that shatner is talking through.

[i'minu]

ween - 12 greatest country hits

frank zappa and the mothers - freakout

primus - sailing the seas of cheese

dead milkmen - big lizard in my backyard

nofx - i heard they suck live

[Ant-LOX]

Pink Floyd - "Animals" (Progressive Rock)

Marilyn Manson - "Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)" (Heavy Rock)

Yes - "Close to the Edge" (Progressive Rock)

The LOX - "We are the Streets" (Rap)

The Beatles - "The Beatles (The White Album)" (Multiple Genres)

[spooky]

Top 5 varies, but usually drifts through these usual suspects...

Murder By Death - Red Of Tooth and Claw
Butter 08 - Butter
Jawbreaker - Dear You
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family
Tool - Undertow
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Assassination of Jesse James
Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral
Solex - Low Kick and Hard Bop
Murder By Death - In Boca Al Lupo
I Am Kloot - Gods and Monsters
Ditty Bops - Moon Over The Freeway
Deadbolt - Tijuana Hit Squad

While I am productive, though, my tastes turn to James Horner, John Murphy, Michael Giacchino, John Williams, Rob Dougan/Don Davis, John Powell, even JG Thirwell. Martin O'Donnell & Michael Salvatori are growing on me as well.

[Saint Marcos]

Originally Posted by spooky

Top 5 varies, but usually drifts through these usual suspects...

Murder By Death - Red Of Tooth and Claw
Butter 08 - Butter
Jawbreaker - Dear You
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family
Tool - Undertow
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Assassination of Jesse James
Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral
Solex - Low Kick and Hard Bop
Murder By Death - In Boca Al Lupo
I Am Kloot - Gods and Monsters
Ditty Bops - Moon Over The Freeway
Deadbolt - Tijuana Hit Squad

While I am productive, though, my tastes turn to James Horner, John Murphy, Michael Giacchino, John Williams, Rob Dougan/Don Davis, John Powell, even JG Thirwell. Martin O'Donnell & Michael Salvatori are growing on me as well.

Who had "Spooky's will be full of stuff I've never heard of." in the pool?
I'm gonna guess most people don't recognize half of those names, including or not including the ones you list in the last paragraph.
I guess in the context of the original posters request, it beats a boring list of bands everyone knows about. Are these contemporary artists? I only ask because clearly Johnny Cash is not, and is NIN still putting stuff out?

[Kydizzle]

Originally Posted by hayroob

It's basically a Ben folds album that shatner is talking through.

hell yes dude. Has Been is really really good. It rides the line between tongue and cheek and very grave.

[Kydizzle]

and albums i like the most lately-

Lymbyc Systym- Field Studies Split
Two Gallants- Two Gallants
Julian Casablancas- Phrazes for the Young
Gorillaz- D-Sides
Benji Hughes- A Love Extreme
Team Teamwork- The Ocarina of Rhyme
Atmosphere- Overcast!

i listen to at least parts of all of these on the daily.